# Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025)

> Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors of New Orleans revisit the storm and the inequities it laid bare.

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## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 3
- Episode runtime: 70 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: documentary
- Network: Netflix
- TMDB rating: 7.0/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35629490/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: accessible
- Violence: mild
- Tone: solemn, grievous, reflective, angry, dignified

## Synopsis

Katrina: Come Hell and High Water (2025) is a US documentary limited series produced for Netflix. Across three roughly seventy-minute episodes, survivors of Hurricane Katrina sit down to recount the storm that changed their lives in New Orleans and along the Louisiana coast, revisiting what they lost and what they endured twenty years on. The engine of the series is testimony: ordinary residents describing the flooding, the waiting, the rescues that did or did not come, and the rebuilding that followed, while the larger question of how the disaster exposed deep systemic inequities runs underneath every account. Rather than a fast-cut recap, the docuseries moves at a measured, reflective pace, letting individual memories carry the weight of collective history. The tone is solemn, grievous and quietly angry, with an emphasis on dignity and accountability. Its setting is the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, a city still living with the aftermath of the flood. Viewers drawn to searing true-events documentaries in the vein of When the Levees Broke and the investigative weight of Flint Town will find resonance here.

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